Day: June 17, 2017

Ignoring former CM Akhilesh Yadav’s reservations, his father and Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav has assured NDA leaders of his party’s support in the presidential polls with the rider that the candidate should not be a strong saffron face and be acceptable to all.

The BJP-led Goa government will write to the Centre raising objections to certain aspects of the central notification on cattle trade as it will have a severe impact on the hospital industry and other ancillary industries, town and country planning minister Vijai Sardesai said.

Known as electric propulsion (EP) system, this technology converts solar energy into electrical energy which, in turn, is used to change the velocity of a satellite in space. It reduces the use of chemical propellant in a launch vehicle.

Army chief Gen Bipin Rawat on Saturday said the human shield tactic employed by Major Leetul Gogoi to combat stonepelters in Kashmir, cannot be made a standard operating procedure (SOP) in the Valley. He said the armed forces are sensitive to human rights and always maintained good track record.

“Neighbouring Telangana and Andhra Pradesh did it first. It created pressure and then UP announced the waiver. The demand had been there but it became very strong after UP’s decision,” he told a group of visiting mediapersons at his residence, ‘Varsha’, on Wednesday,

Trump and Modi will hold their official talks on June 26 in a familiar routine: restricted talks followed by delegation level talks, a meeting with CEOs and a press conference.
Modi will be doing a modest diaspora event a day before in Washington DC itself.

Crime against women seems to have reduced in the capital this year.According to figures released by Delhi Police, 836 cases of rape have been reported till May 31 compared with 924 in the same period last year.